Robert Hawkins, the 19 year old who killed himself and eight other
people with an assault rifle last night in Omaha, Nebraska had
a history of treatment with psychiatric drugs for depression and
ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and was on prozac
according to press
reports.

Of course the headlines will once again focus on
how evil and dangerous guns are, how the second amendment should
be reevaluated and will once again ignore the fact that this young
man was subject to dangerous brain altering chemicals for a number
of years prior to this tragic incident.

Hawkins is the latest in a long line of shooters
all of which were on prescribed antidepressants before they suddenly
snapped and decided to kill as many people as they could before
taking their own lives.

Investigators believe that Cho Seung Hui, the Virginia
Tech murderer, had been taking anti-depressant medication at some
point before the shootings last April, according to The
Chicago Tribune.

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Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold,
as well as 15-year-old Kip Kinkel, the Oregon killer who gunned
down his parents and classmates, were all on psychotropic drugs.

Jeff Weise, the Red Lake High School killer was
on prozac, "Unabomber" Ted Kaczinski, Michael
McDermott, John Hinckley, Jr., Byran Uyesugi, Mark David Chapman
and Charles Carl Roberts IV, the Amish school killer, were all
on SSRI psychotropic drugs.

Antidepressant drugs have never been tested on children nor approved
by the FDA for use on children, however, Scientific
studies proving that prozac encourages suicidal tendencies
in young people are voluminous and span back nearly a decade.

However, prescriptions of antidepressants and other mind-altering
drugs among schoolchildren has more
than quadrupled in that time, while use of behaviour-altering
drugs, including Ritalin, for attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD), and Modafinil, for daytime sleepiness, has soared
ten-fold.

It is a well known fact among the makers of these drugs that
they are directly linked to behavioural disturbances including
agitation, panic attacks and extreme aggression, yet their use
is so commonplace that they have now even found
their way into our drinking water.

Since these deadly drugs are prevalent in almost all mass shooting
incidents, where is the call to ban prozac? Where is the investigation
into these drugs and the big pharma corporations that are pushing
them and gaining record profits? Why is the knee-jerk reaction
always to attack the 2nd Amendment rights of Americans to self-defense,
a
right that was exercised in January 2002 when students
subdued a shooter at another Virginia university before he could
kill more than three people because they were allowed guns on
campus?